|
There will be many times in which the process of your recruitment will go throughout the number of assessment tests of an assessment centre. This kind of activities can be managed by the Human Resources department of the employers’ company, or by independent consultants, and they are intended to assess all aspects of your KSAs (Knowledge, Skills and Attitude). What kind of assessment tests they conduct? An assessment centre is a place design to assess all the knowledge and skills as well as the attitude or the personality of a particular person like a former employee or a candidate to a particular positions. The number and types of assessment tests administrated at this entities goes as follow: In-tray Exercises An in-tray assessment test is an exercise intended to measure your abilities and capacities to process information and organize as well as prioritize projects according to importance and chronological significance. This test is based on your performance in a normal day of work with a hypothetical activities and tasks around a number of items that present problems to be solved within a lapse of time of one, two or even three hours, depending on the intensity and difficulty of the assessment tests. After you finish your performance the assessors will interview you to ask you about your decisions and place your choices into questions. Presentations A presentation is a good way to assess your creativity and your capacity to transmit information in the form of a good and powerful message. The assessors will give you a list of topics for you to choose the one that fits you most and the time needed to make a research about it. Then you must organize all the data you found and give a presentation of about 10 minutes that shows the right key points of the given topic in a good structure that match with every time lapse. After the presentation will be a very short interview for you to explain how or why you chose to manage and organize the information in the way you did. Remember to prepare a list of the possible questions you think they would ask about the given topic. Group Debates To assess your interpersonal skill the assessors present you with a problem which has to be solve in a team with other candidates. Your teamwork skills as well as you leadership will be showcased in this type of exercises. Another important capacity you must show is negotiation, which is highly related with your knowledge of the field of expertise and with your social skills to handle personal relationships. What assessor will be expecting from you are your abilities to manage people and pull out the best of them, whether you are a leader or not. Also this assessment test are intended to measure your personality in certain grade and see if it fit with the work environment. Interviews The interviews can be conducted by only one assessor, in a one-to-one interview, or by a group of assessors in what is known as a panel interview. The questions will put you in hard positions and can measure your knowledge as well as your personality. Role-Play Exercises As a more interactive in-tray test, the role-play assessment test place you in a hypothetical scenario with another individuals that can be former specialized employees or well trained actors that will play a certain character. The point of this exercise is to see not only how you solve problems and deal with issues, but mainly to see how you interact with other persons and your behaviour when you react to conflict.
Related Articles -
job test, numerical test, assessment test, aptitude test,
| 
